It is currently impossible for the artists to get a private copy of the entire composition forming Hangars Liquides VR city to preserve it, due to the immense scale of the work and many other factors, the only way to save our artwork from destruction is to pay for the servers to keep running, our next due payment is on August 1st 2019.

"I have to [do] everything I can to save it from destruction," Djehan tells me. "Imagine if the artwork was paintings, and there is a flood in my studio space, I have to go and get the artwork to save it if I can, because otherwise I am losing what my work, and who can lose their work?"

In this case, however, it's as if a private company owns the underlying canvas to the paintings, and can have them removed if rental for the canvas is not paid:

"The fact that I don't own the means of production is also a question," as Ms. Kidd puts. "I am a builder using Linden Lab's means of production to work with. I believe I add value to the virtual world by building; in a very concrete way, this raises the question of the value of human labor too."

Hangars Liquides as featured by the UK Guardian

Linden Lab has discussed preserving Hangars Liquides with her, and if that happens at the very last moment, she would return these Indiegogo donations: "I would give it all back, I am not here to make profit and I have never been."

However, she prefers preserving it as it exists now through the donations of patrons:

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If I had the means. In a heart beat I’d save it. It’s one of the most breath taking builds in Second Life and truly a testament at what can be created. It’s pure art.
Can Linden Lab not consider this as something of real value they can preserve . Something like this is outstanding and shows that with a vision you can create something extraordinary.
If I can help just shout and I’ll do what I can. Financially I’m not great but happy to film again this weekend and put it out

This issue forces a rethink in strategy for how VR funding works. The current capitalist model makes it unstable for artists to get into it in the first place. This is to the detriment of art and VR. Were LL to reduce their sim rates would be a step in the right direction. As Djehan Kidd says: it is the artists who add value to VR. Simply by hosting Hangars Liquides at all SecondLife goes up in value. Many of us are hoping Miss Kidd moves forward from this experience to learn Unity or Unreal game engines for her own private commercial product for cross-platform consoles so her genius and the atmosphere of Hangers can reach a wider audience.

I hope they contacted a lawyer before pulling this stunt. It is still a kind of rental and they might get patted hard on their fingers if this is deemed circumventing the "no subletting for non-profits" rules by the Lab.

@Fionalein happy to see you contributing here too to the salvation of Hangars Liquides! The Hangars Liquides non profit is accepting donations as the French national law prescribes. Donors will receive a free gift in exchange.

@Fionalein thank you for sharing the link, people will see how some forum participants tried to smear Djehan, a honest, true artist who is trying to save her sim. I am sure people will judge for themselves.

@Lawrence Celestalis you are involved too much into this to see the horrible picture you painted of yourself over there. I hope the Hangars crew will remember you as "the dude who (almost) ruined Djehan's project with his ego trip" and react accordingly...